What's the difference between a man of God and a saint in Zhuangzi?

God and man have no egos, and saints have no jobs. The way of doing things is different, or the god man talks about personal cultivation, and the sage talks about doing things, but leisure is the same. "Zhuangzi's Inner Chapter Free and unfettered Chapter" says: Man has no self, God and man are useless, and saints are nameless. Zhiren: This refers to the person with the highest moral cultivation. No self: define the boundary between external things and self, and achieve the state of forgetting myself. Man of God: This refers to a person whose spiritual world is completely detached from things. Reactive power: no achievement. People: here refers to people with perfect ideological cultivation. Unknown: not pursuing fame and status.

There is a saying in Zhuangzi: A saint is nameless, a man of God is useless, and even a man has no self. The immortal you mentioned here, if it is the real person mentioned by Zhuangzi, is equivalent to the "most human" in the previous sentence.

Because immortals have different directions in different contexts, for example, the immortals referred to by the people mainly refer to all beings who want to live in heaven and those who have become monks. Immortals in Buddhism include earthly immortals, flying immortals, immortals, practitioners and even fortune tellers, while immortals in Taoism generally refer to people who achieve immortality.

Zhuangzi believes that saints are nameless, God-man is useless, and man has no self. This sentence well illustrates the main differences between the three. Saints do not covet fame and wealth, and have no worldly greed; The man of God does not take credit, is not arrogant, is not lazy, and is always struggling. He has lost the heart of fighting (anger), but he is still infatuated. Relatively speaking, it seems to be a little higher than a saint; When there is no one, even the idea of "I" is gone, and there will be no greed, greed, anger and delusion. It's very clean, it's a relief.

In China's traditional culture, "sage" refers to a person who combines knowledge and practice, and is an infinite existence in a limited world. Generally speaking, "those who are talented and virtuous are called saints." Originally, this word was based on the pursuit of "the best" and "the most beautiful" personality, so the original intention of a saint was to refer specifically to perfection.

But then a hundred schools of thought contended, and all kinds of religions and schools, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, also had their own saints, but Taoism's Huang Lao column Zhuang; Confucian Yao, Shun, Confucius and Mencius; Dayu and other Mohist sages are recognized by later generations. In the pre-Qin period, the word sage was not exclusive to Confucianism.

Real person: refers to the person who knows the origin of the universe and life in ancient Taoism and really realizes it. The realized person is called a real person.

Commonly used as appellations, such as Guan Yinzi, Wen Zi, Liezi and Zhuangzi are all named by real people in the Tang Dynasty, and Guiguzi, Zhang Sanfeng, Wang Zhongyang and An Qisheng are all real people. Metaphysics, represented by Tao Te Ching and Zi Si Zhen Jing, is the only knowledge designated as the official school except Confucianism.